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bob_barker · #9 (**permalink**) 07-07-2004, 10:52 PM

Hey scott,.....I read thru your journal and i must say it looks good to me....Im fairly new to growing indoors but ill give you some advice....That light your getting is pretty nice...altho it does use a growlux fluro tube which mostly gives a reddish spectrum, but what you need is blue spectrum, especally for babies because they are vegging.....When in flowering your going for a red spectrum...I would pay the extra 5 and get the full spectrum bulb as it would improve your veg considerably....Another thing on lighting that would be good is if you could get an hps system.....(if your on a budget and you cant spare like $200 dont mind the hps system comment)....Also if its your first time growing good luck on the white widow....and dont take those sample buds

.....you can wait tho seriously.....As far as moving the light up and down....i would just set it at 2 feet away, possibly 1 if that light stays cool all the time, and keep it that distance all throught the plants growth....Now the white widow stran is a long bloomer so your gonna wanna wait for about 9 weeks and before you harvest.....Some of the time you might need 10 weeks in flower before you cut her up.....As far as watering goes.....lol dont expect to water them 1 time a week....mabey in late late flower....but for vegging and early to middle flower they will probably drink every other day.....Now here are ferts.....Plants are fed using fertilizers about every 2 weeks...they are fed using 3 numbers located on the pacage called n-p-k ratios which tell you how much of nitrogen, phosphate, potash(k) that fert contains...When the plants are in veg...(stage 3).....they will need a high dose of the first number on the box (nitrogen is what the first number represents, hence npk.). and in flowering you want a high middle number. well now that ive suddenly realized ive been sitting here for like an hour and babbling on for like an hour cuz im so fucking stoned.....well hope i helped you and good luck....if you happen to get a male and pollinate a female be sure to send some seeds this way

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#9 (permalink) 07-07-2004, 10:52 PM
bob_barker poke smot?!?!?! Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: somewhere where pot is legal... Posts: 203	Hey scott,.....I read thru your journal and i must say it looks good to me....Im fairly new to growing indoors but ill give you some advice....That light your getting is pretty nice...altho it does use a growlux fluro tube which mostly gives a reddish spectrum, but what you need is blue spectrum, especally for babies because they are vegging.....When in flowering your going for a red spectrum...I would pay the extra 5 and get the full spectrum bulb as it would improve your veg considerably....Another thing on lighting that would be good is if you could get an hps system.....(if your on a budget and you cant spare like $200 dont mind the hps system comment)....Also if its your first time growing good luck on the white widow....and dont take those sample buds .....you can wait tho seriously.....As far as moving the light up and down....i would just set it at 2 feet away, possibly 1 if that light stays cool all the time, and keep it that distance all throught the plants growth....Now the white widow stran is a long bloomer so your gonna wanna wait for about 9 weeks and before you harvest.....Some of the time you might need 10 weeks in flower before you cut her up.....As far as watering goes.....lol dont expect to water them 1 time a week....mabey in late late flower....but for vegging and early to middle flower they will probably drink every other day.....Now here are ferts.....Plants are fed using fertilizers about every 2 weeks...they are fed using 3 numbers located on the pacage called n-p-k ratios which tell you how much of nitrogen, phosphate, potash(k) that fert contains...When the plants are in veg...(stage 3).....they will need a high dose of the first number on the box (nitrogen is what the first number represents, hence npk.). and in flowering you want a high middle number. well now that ive suddenly realized ive been sitting here for like an hour and babbling on for like an hour cuz im so fucking stoned.....well hope i helped you and good luck....if you happen to get a male and pollinate a female be sure to send some seeds this way ...